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Second this. Since Opus 4.6 there's been a very noticeable bump in accuracy at just doing FreeCAD+Python or OpenSCAD code, usually one-shots things with basically described geometry.

Recently, Sonnet 5.5 got quite good, too, but not at the level of Opus/Fable for complex geometry

Disclaimer: I use it for very precise 3D printing, not woodwork.

> Someone would need a nice long conversational warmup before they’d feel comfortable enough to be ready to talk about something more uncomfortable.

We kinda-in-the-spectrum fathers of young girls are something else. Finding out at your 40s-ish that sometimes people wants to talk to "just talk" is kind of embarrassing.

The problem is the assumption that I'm obliged to endure such long pointless conversation. I'll need a very strong reason (e.g. you're literally my daughter), or I'd just leave.

As someone with inside knowledge of both, yeah, it's wild. I bet even conspiracy theories will fall short of explaining what's going on there.

Congratulations. Your trolling level is out of this world.

I understand this is a politically charged topic, and every comment is going to be a flame war nonetheless, so here we go.

No matter your political inclination, overabusing green cards to import cheap labor in detriment of the American wage is not even a secret: everybody does it. So the claim is, at least, correct in its formulation.

However:

- It doesn't include Amazon, the biggest offender by far?

- Suspends green cards but not H1Bs? so what the point is exactly? replacing cheap labor, for a potential revolving door of cheap labor? make sure cheap labor is never guaranteed to stay, so they don't dare to think about not being cheap anymore?

- People really thought that Microsoft was different to Tata in methodology and discipline? Did you really have to interact with people in either company? I did, and let me tell you, "highly skilled" or even "skilled at all" is nothing short of an exaggeration.

I've been in both worlds and yes, a sedentary lifestyle is a really bad thing.

However the risks compared to physical jobs are not even close, they're at two different levels.

There's many, many things that can kill you instantly in the trades. Then there's stuff that may ruin your body no matter how careful you are.

Example: doing roofing means you're walking in a sloped plan all day long, every day. After 20 or 30 years, you'd barely have usable knees.

The conclusion was yours to make. However a sibling comment put it succinctly: it's the ones wanting to lower the value of your labor.

But now that you're asking:

It's the ones that need to make wild claims like that your brain is obsolete so they can continue operating at a huge loss.

It's the ones that have multi-year investments in data centers so would very much love a discount on the trades price tag.

It's the ones that want to monopolize and control the price and value of intellectual work.

It's the ones that have been claiming that engineers will be out of a job in 3 months for the past 3 years.

I can keep going but I think that's enough.

I've been in the trades. Everything in this article is real: the hard work, the internal hierarchies, the safety and health concerns.

However the main point is: just pay attention to who is telling you to get a job in the trades instead of a knowledge one.

Haha that's funny even if it's not accurate.

In my experience corporate box checkers don't care about reasoning (much less "encryption") at all, they see it as an annoying blocker in their path to the next promotion.

Hm maybe you're correct, and I was just behind (perks of secondary markets). I very clearly remember fighting an US Robotics 56k modem to work with MS-DOS drivers.

> There are organizations where SHA-1 is blanket banned across the board

This is very likely the case. And if it is, then it's a lost battle. You simply can't reason with that kind of corporate people, let alone have an argument around this level of complexity. Kafka (the writer, not the message broker) predicted this 100 years ago.

When going through the article, my instinct was changing from "annoying" to "this really sounds like a Python 2/3 moment for Git" to finally "oof this is going to be a mess" in the libraries/submodules part.

Lovely. 16MB of RAM in the 90s? That's luxury. And that dial-up sound always takes me back to happier times. Not unlike normal people's childhood songs.

Yeah, I found this weird. Maybe it's some over-obsessive American thing? Random, no-reason sleepovers, or BBQ-style sunday gatherings, and other "just get together and eat so children can play" activities are fairly common among parents with small kids.

It's certainly not like I remember it in the 80s, but still happens a lot, and my uninformed take is: "community" in the US was never that cohesive, it only took so much to make it fall apart.

Yeah it's understandable.

About a year ago there was a "Show HN" post (can't find it now) and the SteamDB guy won the internet that day.

He went into details on how running SteamDB wasn't much of a trouble and it was mostly eye candy on top of the Steam API, in some VPS for $100/mo total, and little maintenance (apparently the Steam APIs are fairly stable).

If he wants to cash it and check out, fine by me, you can't blame him.

Not really sure if this was your intention, but you're making a very compelling argument to keep teaching a "moral code" in schools, churches and homes.